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The YIELD OF A 5-YEAR OLD Ben Davis Apple Tree. — Mr. J. G. Mitchell, 

 of Clarksburg, writes us giving the exact amount of fruit harvested this year from a 

 Ben Davis apple tree planted in the spring of 1889, and receiving garden culti- 

 vation. The quantity was one barrel No. i apples, twelve pounds No. 2, and 

 nine pounds of culls. He stated that nine trees of the same variety, planted 

 the same day, but receiving only ordinary orchard cultivation, yielded together 

 only an aggregate of one barrel of No. i apples. This statement shows what 

 care, cultivation, manure, water and spraying will do for the apple grower. 



The Paragon Chestnut is very productive, according to a writer in the 

 Rural New Yorker. The original tree, now fifteen years old, bears an average 

 of I ^ bushels of nuts, and Mr. Engle, who owns it, thinks they would average 

 75 bushels per acre. To change an old chestnut grove to this variety he would 

 cut down in winter, and when the sprouts grew from the stumps he would splice 

 graft them to Paragon. This work he does in xA.pril. 



Sawdust MANURE is commended by another writer in the same journal. 

 He has used it for two years on some land, and the result was, " better crops, 

 earlier, less injury from drouth, and land as mellow as an ash heap." We have 

 long used sawdust bedding at Maplehurst, for want of straw, and not from 

 choice. Sawdust will remain in the ground a long time without rotting, and 

 therefore does not become available as soon as straw. Still its mechanical 

 effect would be excellent, and the ammonia absorbed would, no doubt, become, 

 immediately available. 



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